Disruptor Wrestling is a different animal on the Georgia wrestling scene. They're presenting talent and matches not to seen on any other show in the state.
One thing for sure, Disruptor is onto something with Tannery Row Ale House.
I loved the venue. The acoustics were amazing, great sightlines from almost every seat in the house and a single light source directly above the ring.
Attendance was close to the seating capacity at 250. Tickets were priced at $50 VIP, $30 front row and $20 general admission. Disruptor is cultivating a new audience in an area of the state that is ripe for the picking.
The crowd ate this show up along with the food and alcoholic beverages served. These fans were as loud and enthusiastic as any show in Georgia.
The management of Tannery Row Ale House requested a long show and Disruptor delivered the goods - nine matches, 3 hours and 45 minutes. Match times were not excessively long. The time between matches was.
DaVinki Code was Disruptor's second event at Tannery Row since returning from a 4+ year hiatus. They ran seven shows in 2018-2019 using three different venues and didn't come back after the pandemic.
The show had some great wrestling. BK Westbrook vs. Alan Angels and Caleb Konley vs. Vary Morales was major league level stuff.
And comedy in abundance, most notably the boozer vs. boy scout master encounter between Matt Sells and Jake Manning.
I had the delightful experience of taking in the show with Terry Lawler and owe him a credit as a collaborator on this report. Lawler's father, grandfather and great aunt worked in the building when it was the Bona Allen Company leather goods factory.
Curtis Coleman's tragic and sudden retirement due to back injury necessitated changes to the card. Coleman was scratched from a triple threat match with Vary Morales and Slim J for Slim's Disruptor Wrestling Championship. Slim J wrestled an unadvertised Marcus Adams in a non-title match. Morales was slotted in a singles match with Caleb Konley.
The main event was changed from a tag to a trios match based on the angle that opened the show (see below).
An announcement was made that the 7pm start time was being pushed back 15 minutes or so due to the traffic from the nearby Gwinnett Stripers doubleheader.
Ring announcer/emcee Kobra Kai and hype man Mike McCann opened the show with the coronation of Tim Kayode Miller as the Verified World Champion. Miller was over huge with the crowd chanting his name. Wentworth came to the ring. The crowd gave him hell. Wentworth wanted his verified world championship back. It was clear from the crazed response that most of the crowd was back for more from February show. The arrival of Exotic Youth (Zach Mosley & Bryce Cannon) compounded the maelstrom. The crowd chanted "Jimmy Neutron" at Cannon. Voros Twins hit the ring and six man tag -- EY & Wentworth vs. Voros Twins & Miller -- was announced as the main event.
Their was brilliance in this booking. No matter how long the show lasted, the people weren't leaving without seeing this match.
(1) Alan Angels defeated BK Westbrook in 12:46. I loved how this match established Disruptor had quality, athletic pro wrestling in their bag of tricks. They did a stellar job of playing to the crowd. Angels tried Westbrooks ring robe on for size and got a "that guy's silky" chant. Angels did a running crossbody from the VIP area to the floor. Westbrook took a big bump on a flying miss into the corner He did his outside-to-inside Asai moonsault for a near fall. Angels beat him with a spinning double underhook piledriver.
(2) Disruptor Champion Slim J defeated Marcus Adams via submission in 5:55. A decent match but something of a clash of styles. Adams had a tough time taking Slim's moves so so they looked good. Slim showed heelish tendencies. Slim kicked the ropes into Adams' groin, hit the flying reverse DDT and submitted him with the inverted STF.
(3) Luka Daniels defeated Cornelius Pepperbottom and Rico Gonzalez in 8:57. Good match. Crowd seemed unfamiliar with Gonzalez as he entered but they took to him were as the underdog babyface in no time flat. I enjoyed Daniels heel personality at Deep South and again here. He's strong with the facial expressions. Pepp was nominated for most improved wrestler in Georgia for a reason. Daniels and Pepp competed for the spot as the top asshole. Then they decided to work together which was an abysmal failure. Gonzalez made a one against two comeback. Rico flattened Pepp with his now signature double stomp to the apron. Daniel shitcanned Rico and stole the pin on Pepperbottom.
The first of two scheduled intermission happened.
(4) Ivy Malibu defeated Ella Envy in 8:47. Malibu (Nightmare Factory) had the crowd behind her. Envy knows how to work a crowd to heat. Her strikes were stiff. Her kick to Malibu's ribs sounded nasty. Malibu defeated SDL at the February show and racked up her second consecutive Disruptor win with a spear. Darryl Hall paused during his three count so he must have seen a shoulder up.
(5) Better Together (Ori Gold & Hadar Horvitz) defeated Cb Suave & Dante Casanova in 14:07. This was an entertaining tag match. All but Suave were out of Florida. Casanova was impressive. His display of strength and explosive power stood out on this show. Better Together are a solid team. Suave had Horvitz pinned with a sunset flip. Gold kicked Suave in the face from outside the ring and held Horvitz's feet on the ropes. Might have been the other way around. These Jewish guys all look alike.
(6) "Manscout" Jake Manning defeated "The Boozerweight" Matt Sells in 12:34. Uniquely creative in the comedy department. Sells offered Manning some Miller Lite. The scoutmaster is straight edge. Sells did the Terry Funk spot where he teeter tottered on the ropes and kept getting punched in the face. They criss-crossed the ring with Sells drinking a beer and Manning reading from his scout manual. Manning tossed a pup tent inside the ring. They scrapped inside the tent. The Manscout broke his sobriety. For the finish, Manning pinned Sells with a death valley driver onto the pup tent.
The powers that be decided to forgo the second intermission scheduled for this juncture because the show was running plenty long without it.
(7) Trever Aeon defeated Beastly in 7:37. A solid wrestling match that got stuck in in the one dead spot on the show before the crowd got their second wind. Beastly (another Florida guy) was scheduled to face Konley. Aeon hit the Gothplex and pinned Beastly with that cool pumphandle head drop thing.
(8) Vary Morales defeated Caleb Konley in 11:38. This match ruled. Morales and Konley worked their asses off. Konley went heel. Konley put Morales in a lucha-style rocking horse and banged his head on the bottom turnbuckle. Morales finished with a great burst of offense including a top rope rana, a poison rana and a double underhook piledriver for the pin.
After the match, Slim J and stared a hole through Morales without saying a word.
(9) The Voros Twins (Patrick & Chris) & Verified World Champion Tim Kayode Miller defeated Exotic Youth (Zach Mosley & Bryce Cannon) & Randy Wentworth in 17:35. A chaotic match that had the crowd going wild throughout. It was ragged in spots and never boring. Voros Twins and EY were in almost the entire way until the finish. The Twins were doing all kinds of combo moves. One twin accidentally superkicked the other twin. Cannon had one of the Voros twins pinned with the Keg Stand but Miller made the save. It boiled down to Miller squaring off with Wentworth and in the end, Miller pinned Wentworth with an implant DDT to retain. The Voros Twins are certainly a unique act and Wentworth was bunches of fun as a heel..
Wentworth remained flat on his back after the match. Kobra Kai, referee David Weakley and a female fan from the VIP section all got to cover Wentworth for three counts.
NOTES: Disruptor returns to Tannery Row Ale House is April 27 with "Appetite for Disruption"...Wrestling at Southern's Scott Barnett, wrestler Luke Sampson and Nick McDaniel of the Tapped Out Podcast were in the house...Angels is from the Buford area and had family in the crowd supporting him...Lawler had the unique experience of wrestling in the building where he father worked when he wrestled Chip Day at the February Disruptor show.
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